MilitaryAAI Receives Army UAV Order United Industrial Corp.’s AAI Corp. subsidiary received a $153.4 million order from the U.S. Army for production of 14 additional Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TUAS). Sixty-one systems have been delivered…
CommercialEra’s MSS System Deployed in California A noise monitoring and flight tracking system manufactured by Era, Reston, Va., is now operational at the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport in Southern California, the company said. Era deployed its AirScene.com Noise…
CommercialEFB STC Chicago-based NavAero’s tBagTMC22 Class 2 Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) received Supplemental Type Certification (STC) from the FAA on A300 and A310 aircraft series. NavAero said this STC, which covers the A300-600 and…
CommercialJetBlue to Launch In-Flight E-Mail Service Low-fare carrier JetBlue Airways is expanding its in-flight entertainment options this month, adding e-mail and instant message capabilities to its fleet. JetBlue, and its partners Yahoo!, Blackberry manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM)…
MilitaryCAE Inks Simulator Contracts Canadian simulator company CAE signed two contracts with the Netherlands Ministry of Defense with a combined value of $59.4 million to design two full-mission simulators (FMS) for the Royal Netherlands Air Force…
MilitaryBAE Tests Landing System BAE Systems completed the first test of an autonomous landing system intended for large mobility and transport aircraft. BAE said the Dec. 6 demonstration of the Autonomous Approach and Landing Capability (AALC)…
MilitaryAir Force, Rockwell Collins Exercise Option The U.S. Air Force exercised a $50.7 million contract option with Rockwell Collins to complete the next phase of the Modernized User Equipment (MUE) program, which consists of receiver card development for…
ATM ModernizationHarris Completes Weather System Transition Harris Corp., Melbourne, Fla., completed the transition of FAA’s weather radar data in the continental United States to the FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) network, which the company said enables air traffic controllers…